Turn off usb stick but not mouse etc.

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Daniel

Hi,

Is there any way to turn off my usb so when people put a usb stick in
the computer it won't recognize it and won' t show a usb stick on
my computer. I still want windows to recognize my printer etc though.

Ideas/suggestions?

Thanks in Advance,

Daniel
 
Modern mobo bioses allow you to exclude the usb port from the boot-up
process and to ignore USB keyboards. The way the BIOS defaults are set on
many mother boards causes them to freeze during boot up if a USB drive of
any kind (hard drive, stick, IPOD) is connected to the computer. That can be
frustrating but is easily corrected, if that is what you are experiencing.
I don't recall seeing a BIOS that allows you to entirely turn off USB but it
might be in there.
Windows will allow you to turn off recognition of USB ports entirely in the
Control Panel/hardware applet. No USB device connected through mobo USB
ports will be recognized until you turn the USB ports back on.
I believe that if you exclude a specific USB device that is connected to
the computer using that Applet it will cease to function during that Windows
session but drivers will reinstall the next time you boot windows as the
drivers are generic and not specific for a particular device.
 
Is there any way to turn off my usb so when people put a usb stick in
the computer it won't recognize it and won' t show a usb stick on
my computer. I still want windows to recognize my printer etc though.
Ideas/suggestions?
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Other than "Don't let other people use your computer unless you're around",
I don't think so.
 
It is further alleged that on or about 7 Apr 2006 05:52:49 -0700, in
alt.computer, the queezy keyboard of "Daniel" <[email protected]>
spewed the following:

|Hi,
|
|Is there any way to turn off my usb so when people put a usb stick in
|the computer it won't recognize it and won' t show a usb stick on
|my computer. I still want windows to recognize my printer etc though.
|
|Ideas/suggestions?

Open Regedit and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR
right click and set permissions
 
changed the permission on the key to:

Administrator - full control allow
test_user - full control deny

but when I log in with the test user he can still see the usb drive on
the computer when I plug it in. What am I doing wrong?
 
Daniel said:
changed the permission on the key to:

Administrator - full control allow
test_user - full control deny

but when I log in with the test user he can still see the usb drive on
the computer when I plug it in. What am I doing wrong?
Click to expand...

Windows writes an item to this regitry hive when it
sees an USB drive for the first time. Probably this
particular USB drive had been enumerated before you
changed the permissions. When you remove all items
below USBSTOR, then you should get the expected results.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe
 
It is further alleged that on or about 10 Apr 2006 01:29:38 -0700, in
alt.computer, the queezy keyboard of "Daniel" <[email protected]>
spewed the following:

|changed the permission on the key to:
|
|Administrator - full control allow
|test_user - full control deny
|
|but when I log in with the test user he can still see the usb drive on
|the computer when I plug it in. What am I doing wrong?

Deny all access.
 
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